Flexsteel Industries, Inc. v. Morbern Industries Ltd.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that insurer’s mistake resulting in default could not be imputed to defendant so as to bar opening of default judgment
• holding that the movant must present evidence of a prima facie showing of a defense upon the merits
• holding that the movant must present evidence of a prima facie showing of a defense upon the merits
• defendant’s general denial constituted a prima facie showing of a meritorious defense
• the reliance by the insured upon the insurer must be reasonable
• default set aside where the defendant’s insurer misunderstood original notice

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).